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Fortunately the taper on each end isolates heat from the hands from the dough.

I have no idea, though our rolling pin (as I remember it) is not that long...

I just remember that years ago I tried making pie crusts and kept melting the damn shortening and getting really sucky crusts... now, you can buy the suckers cheaper than you can make 'em!

Thinking back, I remember a friend that was a chef showing me his "tools" and he had a stainless steel rolling pin (that, if I remember correctly, had handles) that he kept chilled or something...

I confess... if you don't burn it over fire, I probably don't know how to cook it..

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good point, George!!

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besides, shouldn't it be a PI number? when you're asked for a PIN number, they're saying "input Personal Identification Number number", right??

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mac davis wrote: snip

That's exactly the problem. The lard/shortening and the utensils have to be COLD. If they start to warm, you might as well get one of the lousey ones from the store. Stone and metal chill and stay cold very well, wood doesn't accept of conduct heat very well, so it's usable, but if you aren't keeping your hands to the ends, it will affect the dough. either way, you don't need to run a hole through the entire rolling pin.

Dave in Fairfax

but if you do, my neighbor suggested using a high velocity, steel jacketed round... he thought that a hollow point would make too big of a hole and wouldn't be acceptably round.. *rofl* It's kind of interesting, the way non-wood workers look at a problem..

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You do realise that we're talking about MAJOR tearout with that solution.

Dave in Fairfax

Dave & Mac are so right. Before air conditioning and frigidares, making flaky pie crust wasn't easy in S. Fla. most of the year. Cutting warm lard or crisco into the dough, and rolling it out was worse than turning palm, even with a chilled rolling pin on a marble pastry board. Yankee blueberry pies were wicked good, but Southern chicken & dumplings & peach cobblers were sinful also.

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Ok, Arch.. I have to ask.... How DO you turn palm, with a chilled rolling pin on a marble pastry board?

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Sorry for your confusion, Mac. I should have have made it clearer that it's difficult to turn a rolling pin over the dough with sweaty palms. Hope to palm this TIC off on you. :)

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

Ah yes, the "PIN number..." what you need if you're going to the "ATM machine."

Hi Gary

You probably have finished your rolling pin by now, but I have been helping my youngest son move house, they needed more room after the arrival of there 3th child, so we have been busy.

I'm catching up with the post of the last two weeks on rcw.

I have made some rolling pins with handles on a shaft that went through the length of the rolling pin.

I wanted to make some real smooth turning, rolling pins, and used bearings for the rolling pins, (turned them from UHMW) and used 10 mm stainless steel tubing for the shaft.

I drilled the rolling pins blanks 3/4"D for approx. 1 1/2" deep on both ends and then drilled a 1/2" hole halfway through from both ends, that gave me enough clearance so the shaft would not bind in the wandered drill hole.

I also made holders to store the rolling pins on, I used turned disks cut in half to make two half moon pieces and drilled two holes in each for 1/4" dowels to space the half moons apart, and drilled with a forstner bit a almost half hole, for the handles to lay in .

They made very nice Christmas gifts and were very well received.

Drilling long holes in wood that stay straight and on center is hard to do, unless you have some special bits, and they are hard to come by, you could make a so called D drill or gun drill, but it takes a long time to drill deep holes with them, they don't cut fast and you have to keep backing the bit out very often since there is so little room for the swarf, Dan Bollinger showed a picture of a deep hole wood drill at one time, never seen or used one like that, and I don't know if it would be worthwhile to make one.

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

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Just pulling your chain, Arch... I was expecting a more philosophical answer, though.. lol

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